On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 7 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, the Brown University Library and Friends of the Library will present the Harris Collection Literary Award to renowned author and historian, Nathaniel Philbrick ’78, P’08. A brief awards ceremony will kick off the event, followed by an interview with Philbrick, led by … Nathaniel Philbrick to Receive Library’s Harris Collection Literary Award
Spend two evenings with author Artemis Joukowsky III P’14, P’16, who tells the incredible story of his grandparents, Martha Ingham Dickie (Brown 1926) and Rev. Waitstill Hastings Sharp in his new book, Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War (Beacon Press, 2016), also a film by Ken Burns of the same name. On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 … Events | DEFYING THE NAZIS: THE SHARPS’ WAR – Discussions with Artemis Joukowsky
On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 12 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Matthew K. Gold and Douglas Armato will discuss “Retooling the Monograph: The Manifold Scholarship Project.” A reception will follow the talk. The event is free and open to the public. Retooling the Monograph: The Manifold Scholarship Project How can we … Event | “Retooling the Monograph: The Manifold Scholarship Project” with Matthew Gold and Douglas Armato
WWII Japanese Incarceration Swing Bands, a new exhibit in Orwig Music Library curated by Ethnomusicology PhD student Julian Saporiti, shines a light on the 75th Anniversary of the Japanese American Incarceration. On February 19th, 1942, President Roosevelt bowed to racist, anti-Japanese hysteria and signed Executive Order 9066 which removed 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom were … Exhibit | WWII Japanese Incarceration Swing Bands
On Thursday, February 2, 2017 from 3:30 – 5 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Jenna Freedman, Associate Director of Communications and Zine Librarian at Barnard College, will give a talk on zines and zine history, radical librarianship, zinemaking, and queering publishing. This event is free and open to the public. Jenna Freedman’s … Talk and Workshop | Zines and Radical Librarianship with Jenna Freedman
The architecture models displayed in the Rockefeller Library’s Finn Reading Room cases were created by students in Professor Sheila Bonde’s lecture course “Architectures of Islam” and in Professor Itohan Osayimwese’s lecture course, “Architecture and Urbanism of Africa.” Professor Bonde’s class looked at case studies of Islamic architecture spanning fourteen centuries and three continents, while Professor Osayimwese’s … Exhibit | Works from Architectures of Islam & Architectures and Urbanism of Africa
The Library has been full of activity near the close of 2016. Here are a few updates: Read the latest from the JHL Conservation Bulletin, in which Rachel Lapkin, the Library Materials Conservator, provides an inside look into her projects and processes. The Brown Book Truck is tweeting about the people and spaces of the … Updates from Around the Library | December 2016
Advanced PhD students are invited to apply now to participate in a Dissertation Writing Retreat in January 2017. The writing-intensive retreat, to be held January 9-13, will provide 16 participants with space, time and encouragement to make progress on their dissertations. Stacy Kastner, Associate Director of the Writing Center, will lead the retreat, which pools the resources and … Dissertation Writing Retreat January 9-13 from the Writing Center, Graduate School and University Library (Deadline 12/28)
Who wants some pizza? Every semester the Library hosts two nights of pizza to fortify your studying. The first (Tuesday) night will be in the Rock. The next night (Wednesday) there will be pizza in Friedman Study Center at the SciLi. Students that enjoy studying in a library as well as eating pizza are encouraged to attend. Schedule: Tuesday, … EVENT | Pizza Nights
On Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. at the John Hay Library, S. T. Joshi Endowed Research Fellow Matthew Beach will give a presentation entitled, “Lovecraft’s Consolation.” Beach is the second recipient of the Joshi Fellowship, which supports research relating to H.P. Lovecraft, his associates, and literary heirs. Working with the H. P. Lovecraft papers … EVENT | Annual S. T. Joshi Fellow Presentation : Matthew Beach and “Lovecraft’s Consolation”
